Stephen King

Summaries of books by Stephen King.

'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · 1975

A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.

2,046-word summary · 9 min read

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011

A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.

2,799-word summary · 12 min read

Carrie

Stephen King · 1974

Bullied Carrie White discovers telekinetic powers that turn a cruel prom prank into a night of fire.

2,172-word summary · 10 min read

It

Stephen King · 1986

Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.

2,229-word summary · 10 min read

Misery

Stephen King · 1987

A novelist crashes in Colorado snow and wakes in the home of his self-declared number one fan, who will not let him leave.

2,744-word summary · 12 min read

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · 1983

Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

2,158-word summary · 10 min read

The Green Mile

Stephen King · 1996

Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.

2,549-word summary · 11 min read

The Gunslinger

Stephen King · 1982

Roland chases the man in black across desert to the tower, losing Jake and learning ka is a wheel.

2,071-word summary · 9 min read

The Outsider

Stephen King · 2018

Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.

2,586-word summary · 11 min read

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977

The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.

2,011-word summary · 9 min read

The Stand

Stephen King · 1978

A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.

1,959-word summary · 9 min read